V&V: Finally gets a Critical Recommendation!

The third review for the show just got posted over on the Evanston Review website. You can check it out here. And it's pretty dead-on to the show.

The reviewer, Tom Loerzel, notes that the show "more like a nostalgic throwback than a contemporary attempt to push the envelope". And he's bang on. We want to do actual vaudeville. We don't want to do a show that comments on vaudeville. That seems like one more step away from what we want to do. I can't tell you how many times I heard someone say, "That's how they used to do it, in the old days" and that was used as a guide for how we staged something. Hell, the scripts came straight out of a scriptbook that preserved the text from the 1900's. That's what we aimed for.

Mr. Loerzel gets it. It's meant as a sweet, fun, funny, high-energy, romp, lovingly delivered to modern audiences from a by-gone era. If you buy a ticket for the show, you're enjoying a valentine that the directors, actors and crew have prepared for you. THAT'S what the show is about.

He also nails this particular aspect of the show...

Even if the jokes always don't work, when they come at you in rapid-fire bursts, it's hard not to laugh.

Modesty doesn't prevent me from posting the little bit of individual attention that Mr. Loerzel shines on me. It's nice to be singled out a little bit for one's work on a show.

Mr.B also has his share of hilarious lines, and he holds the whole show together as master of ceremonies, getting the audience into the show's zany spirit.

Also, one of my improvised bits are referenced in the review. The whole "Yowza, Yowza" and "Hubba, Hubba" business. So that's nice.

Hmm, that review makes it sound like a pretty good show, doesn't it?



FOR THOSE PLAYING ALONG AT HOME, HERE'S THE REVIEW WRAPUP FOR THE SHOW:
Evanston Review - Recommended!
www.chicagocritics.com - Somewhat Recommended
www,centerstagechicago.com - Somewhat Recommended.
I'LL UPDATE THIS LIST, AS MORE REVIEWS COME IN!
(Good or bad!)